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[Joan Deutsch]

Does anyone know where nightshade grows? I don't recall hearing about it in the Northwest.
A study showed that horses consuming plants from the toxic Solanum (nightshade) family could be in danger of ivermectin poisoning, even when Ivermectin is dosed appropriately:

http://www.thehorse.com/articles/31023/simultaneous-ivermectin-and-i-solanum-i-plant-poisoning-in-horses

[horsepeople2001]

tomato's and potato's are in the nightshade family, along with night shade it's self which can and does grow in the PNW.

[kriss10]

Nightshade does grow in the PNW. We had it in our backyard in Portland, and we have found it in our garden in Central Oregon. Typically, animals will not eat a poisonous plant as long as there is plenty of other food for them to eat. We found the nightshade in the garden after we had turned the sheep out there at the end of the growning season. Once they had cleaned up the edibles, the nightshade that had crept in from who-knows-where became very obvious to us.

[4HMom]

We do have nightshade around here. It's a vine that has really pretty flowers either purple or white, and then gets tiny translucent red berrys.